True Grit - Charles Portis

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Of Judge Parker, Mattie declares that:

“His manner was grave.  On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic.  That was his wife’s religion.  It was his own business and none of mine.  If you had sentenced one hundred and sixty men to death and seen around eighty of them swing, then maybe at the last minute you would feel the need of some stronger medicine than the Methodists could make.  It is something to think about.”